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Faculty Senate Monthly Packet October 2015, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The October 2015 Monthly packet includes the October agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held June 1, 2015.

The Free Press Vol. 47, Issue No. 05, 10-05-2015, Krysteana Scribner

Free Press, The

Bayside could be location for future Portland dorms -- Petition circling to bring a bar to Gorham campus -- MU initiative gets students involved in the community -- Sukkah constructed on campus for week long Jewish festival -- International Socialist Organization gets new club on campus -- 385 students opted out of vaccines this year at USM

Miller, Henry & Stephanie, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Stephanie’s family moved to the Bronx in the 1940’s. Her parents met in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. When they first got married they lived on Hewett Place. Her father was a waiter and her mother was a clerk for the state insurance fund. Henry’s family moved to the Bronx in 1944 from Harlem to Lenox Avenue. Both of his parents migrated to New York City from the South. His grandfather was a super, which is how his parents got their first house. His father was a member of the National Maritime Union.

Stephanie attended P.S 62 for grade …

Meaning In The Spaces: Archivists' Impact On The Historical Record, Ruth E. Bryan

Library Presentations

Archives and “the archives” are culturally-specific places and materials. In the same way, both individual archivists and users of archives are situated in specific, often different, contexts of culture and identity. Archives are also spaces where researchers encounter sources for creating history. Thus, as both archival professionals and users of archival material, the meanings we construct for ourselves through understanding our past can be thought of as being constantly generated in the ever-changing spaces within and across archival sources, where individual donors, archivists, and researchers, archival professional standards, daily practical needs, and repositories’ organizational missions interact and interrelate. Because each …

Classification, Visualization, And Analysis Of The Islamic State’S Narrative, Steven D. Bixler

Geography and the Environment: Graduate Student Capstones

The Islamic State (IS) declared the establishment of a Caliphate on June 29, 2014 in Mosul, Iraq. Since that declaration, IS has communicated a four-part narrative to the global community through Dabiq magazine, its e-publication. Each of the ten editions of Dabiq has provided insight into IS’s aspirations and reinforced its message of rejecting post-colonial structures. Critical to realizing its objective is establishing a foothold for the Caliphate through jihad (holy war), establishing legitimacy through jamaah (governance), achieving tawhid (unity), and expanding through hijrah (immigration). Each publication contains these narrative elements to document IS’s progress. Classifying, visualizing, and mapping will …

Regional Variation In The Continuity Of Land-Use Patterns Through The First Millennium A.D. In Lowland Britain, S Rippon, Rm Fyfe

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Legal Approach For The Risks Of Offshore Methane Hydrates: Existing Laws And Conventions, Roy Andrew Partain

Pace Environmental Law Review

This article provides a review of the existing laws and conventions that might be applied to the development of offshore methane hydrates. Offshore methane hydrates are an exciting emerging new energy resource; one with great potential to provide vast energy supplies, and also one with substantially novel risks and hazards to the environment, marine flora and fauna, and adjacent human communities. Some of these new risks include cataclysmic levels of greenhouse gas emissions, subsea landslides, and tsunamis. As such, it is important to take a survey of the existing laws and conventions that could be applied to such risks, examine …

The Curious Untidiness Of Property & Ecosystem Services: A Hybrid Method Of Measuring Place, John Page, Ann Brower, Johannes Welsch

Pace Environmental Law Review

Theoretically, this paper builds on ideas of ecosystem services (ES) in landscapes, property theories of plurality and marginality, and the legal geography of localized place. Methodologically, we will explore three divergent ways of measuring ES in a propertied landscape. Substantively, combining property theory and spatial methods in this way will allow for future consideration of property arrangements that might be more optimal and representative of contextualized place.

Part II presents the qualitative method--a narrative description of the flow of resources and services across a transect from the mountains to the sea. Narrative is effective in describing the aesthetics and indelibly …

The Migrant Rights Gap: How Non-State Actors Meet The Unrecognized Economic And Social Rights Of Undocumented Immigrants (Abstract), Barbara Frey, Melissa Pardo

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

This paper explains how non-state actors, including churches and non-profit organizations, work informally to protect the economic and social rights of undocumented Mexican immigrants. Under international law, economic and social rights should apply equally to non-citizens unless distinctions in their protection are necessary and proportionate to a legitimate State objective. There is no legitimate State objective to deny food, shelter or health care to non-citizens. Despite this, Federal and State governments in the United States take no express responsibility to respect, protect or fulfill the economic and social rights of undocumented migrants. The authors designate this lacuna in state protection …

Transcending Boundaries: Achieving Success In Cooperative Management Of Natural Resources, Public Land & Resources Law Review

Public Land & Resources Law Review

This year’s conference examines the innovative management of natural resources across international, state, local, and tribal boundaries. Our panelists will share success stories of transboundary resource management on our three conference panels related to water, wildlife, and climate and energy.

Rather than review historic problems, this conference focuses on creative solutions and success stories. Our goals are to provide a national platform to present new scholarship, to examine significant current events, to foster collaboration, and to inform future policy.

Thank you all for attending,

Public Land & Resources Law Review Editors and Staff

Board Of Trustees Minutes, October 2, 2015, Coastal Carolina University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Bank Street Program: Child Growth And Learning In Social Studies Experiences (1952), Charlotte B. Winsor

Bank Street Thinkers

"The teachers and psychologists who are the Bank Street group lay no claim to the discovery of any new axioms in educational practice. They have invented no method, no device, no gadget that opens magic doors to learning. What they have done is to establish principles based upon the needs and purposes of children, related to the world in which they live..." This article illustrates a program at City and Country School in which class jobs, such as running the school post office, supply store, and printing shop form the base for social studies experiences. Applying a philosophy similar to …

The Bank Street Thinkers: Foundational Knowledge To Support Our Roots And Wings, Bank Street College Of Education

Bank Street Thinkers

A series of papers and lectures that explore Bank Street history, the concepts of teaching and teacher preparation, our long history of social studies teaching and curriculum development, the role of language and play in young children's growth, and a look at the meaning of competence in schools.

Introduction, Peggy Mcnamara

Bank Street Thinkers

No abstract provided.

Social Studies And Geography (1934), Lucy Sprague Mitchell

Bank Street Thinkers

Lucy Sprague Mitchell muses upon the meaning of each of the title words separately and then together providing insight into how children learn best -- by doing. Discusses Mitchell's concepts of human geography and how school trips promote students' understanding of their world.

2015 October 2 - State Of The University Address, Office Of The President, East Tennessee State University

Office of the President Speeches

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes Oct 2, 2015, A-State Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

Meeting minutes for the Faculty Senate held on October 2, 2015.

Engaging With And Moving On From Participatory Research: A Personal Reflection, Cath Gristy

Plymouth Institute of Education

No abstract provided.

A Descriptive Study To Asses The Perception And Practice Of Selected Contraceptive Methods Among Target Population In Select Areas Of Mumbai, Clifford Elia, Johnscy Samuel, Pratidnya Kasekar, Rachel Joseph, Reshma Raju

DNP and Student Works

OBJECTIVES:

- To assess the perception of the target population regarding the selected contraceptive methods.

- To analyse the practises of the target population regarding the use of contraceptive methods in them.

- To associate the scores of practices of the target population regarding the use of selected contraceptive method with their perception score.

The study aims at finding out the perception & practices of selected contraceptives among the target population, hence the descriptive design was considered to be appropriate and therefore accepted.

Integrated Use Of Lidar And Multibeam Bathymetry Reveals Onset Of Ice Streaming In The Northern Bothnian Sea, Sl Greenwood, Cc Clason, H Mikko, Et Al

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Geomorphological mapping from the new LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)-derived digital elevation model for Sweden and a high-resolution multibeam bathymetry data-set for the Gulf of Bothnia reveals a continuous system of glacial landforms crossing the transition between the modern terrestrial and marine environments. A palaeo-ice stream in the northern Bothnian Sea is reconstructed, with an onset tributary over the present-day Ångermanland–Västerbotten coastline. Systematic contrasts in landform morphology and lineation length indicate that this ice stream comprised a relatively narrow (~40 km) corridor of fast flow, flowing first SW then S, and likely fed by converging flow around the upper Bothnian …

Central Washington University Graduate Catalog 2015-2016 Academic Year, Central Washington University

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Central Washington University 2015-2016 Academic Year Undergraduate Catalog, Central Washington University

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Global Kentucky (Fall 2015), University Of Kentucky International Center

Global Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Eyes On Bangladesh's Disappearing Coasts: Proposed Constitutional Protections For Coastal Communities Particularly Vulnerable To Climate Change, Sabrina Persaud

Student Works

Climate change, a phenomenon caused by global warming, has impacted just about every part of the earth. As polar ice caps continue to melt, people across the world are experiencing record-breaking heat waves and warmer winters. These erratic weather patterns are just one of the many impacts of climate change. Changes in temperature have altered ecosystems and habitats for terrestrial and marine wildlife, and caused human health to deteriorate. Larger, more industrialized countries are the major contributors to climate change; however, smaller countries, such as Bangladesh, suffer the consequences. This article analyses the negative effects that climate change has had …

The Firece Green Fire: Vol. 6 Issue 4, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program

The Fierce Green Fire

No abstract provided.

Sustainability@Bsu - Fall 2015, Center For Sustainability, Bridgewater State University

Center for Sustainability Magazine

No abstract provided.

Exploring Place In The French Of Italy, 1st Edition, Laura Morreale Phd, Heather V. Hill

Fordham Archived Digital Projects

The goal of the site is to map all of the place names mentioned in a selection of medieval French-language works created or copied on the Italian peninsula from roughly 1250 to 1500 and featured on Fordham's French of Italy website.

Mapping place names provides a view of these texts that varies from more traditional approaches, which often focus on close reading or the examination of one particular textual tradition over time. Exploring these texts from a more distant vantage point is a valuable exercise for both literary and historical interpretation – the maps you see displayed here suggest patterns …

Jeanne Clery Disclosure Of Campus Security Policy And Campus Crime Statistics Report, 2014, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Police Department

Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy

No abstract provided.

Academic Affairs And Assessment Committee, October 1, 2015, Coastal Carolina University

Board of Trustees Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Maryland Carey Law Responds, David Reich

Maryland Carey Law

No abstract provided.